Politics, Draconian Ranking System, Zero Work/Life Balance, Good Opportunities - Engineer ExxonMobil Employee Review

1.0
Oct 12, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great opportunities to travel the world and make an impact abroad. Coworkers are very smart and capable. Lots of training opportunities.

Cons

The ranking system is completely based on politics. People are force ranked in a straight line and the ranking is based on your perceived relative performance as compared with your peer group. You can get ranked very low for doing an excellent job because a manager perceives that you didn't do your own job as well as someone else (or they just like this person more) with a similar or even unrelated job. Getting ranked low once is almost impossible to come back from as the ranking is cumulative instead of different year to year. Managers and supervisors don't have your back either though there are exceptions. All of this fosters a hyper-competitive and stressful environment that is counterproductive to teamwork and collaboration. New positions or opportunities are usually forced on you as there are no internal postings. Saying no to a position is essentially a death knell for your career despite the circumstances of your decline. Work/life balance is non-existent. People work from early in the morning to late at night 5 days a week and people come in on the weekend.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

Great all around compensation - from salary, benefits (401k & pension & flexible work], medical [fantastic] Great people - at the company you understand everyone around is came from being one of the smartest people at their previous job/university. Within IT the overwhelming majority of people really care for you, this feels way more collaborative than competitive. Career Development - lots of opportunities to grow in breadth of experience to get deep in your skills and grow in leadership skills

Cons

Work Politics - being such a large corporation with a lot of history there is a tendency to be work politics/red tape sheerly because of the size of the company. However, it is not really bad if you are willing network , put yourself out there to talk with leaders, and be a normal hard-working enjoyable employee. If you do these two things you will succeed at ExxonMobil.

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